This has been in my mind for quite a while. I have had serious problems with my hosting of files and examples in the past. I was also considering moving to my own domain name (http://flexgeek.in).

After a lot of deliberation (yeah – compromising the page rank, getting all my readers book mark the new address, mxna aggregation…) I have finally decided to transition my blog to http://blog.flexgeek.in. Please update the link in your RSS readers and bookmarks. For some time I will continue to post in both the locations, but I aim to discontinue this blog soon.

What that would mean is that many of my readers who have been *extremely* pissed with the broken links and my not fixing them have a reason to be a little less angry at me. I have re-instated all the examples and source code into my new blog. A good reason to update your bookmarks to http://blog.flexgeek.in🙂

I have had this blog on wordpress for about 2 years now, its time to part and move on.

I have been toying with the idea of building an AIR app that would do something more than the usual flickr photo searching. That’s when I came across this cool application from Idée labs .

I just spent a couple of days to something similar using Adobe AIR and Flex as a desktop app. In the process I also got the Adobe Kuler APIs tied in to this application. I call this experiment colrful desktop.

Feel free to test drive this application and tell me what you think. There are plenty of bugs in it, since I have spent very little (read that as nothing) effort in testing this out. Its a fun app, so go ahead, play with some colors, find images and save them to your desktop. All in a seamless work flow.

Features at a glance

Select colors from the palette and search. You will get images matching that color (Results restricted to 25 in the preview build)

Search for themes in Adobe Kuler, select a theme and you will get search results matching that theme.

Paste the URL of your favorite image in the web and colrful will look up similar images from the web🙂

Preview the image of your choice from the search results and download it to your desktop. Just a couple of clicks🙂

Coming soon:

A whole lot of offline stuff, which I am currently working on.

I haven’t gotten a whole lot of time setting up install badge for this one (and wordpress wont let me embed it here anyways. grrr)

A special word of thanks goes to my colleague and sr evangelist Ramesh Srinivasaraghavan for all the value added features. He is the ultimate idea machine!

You need Adobe AIR runtime to use colrful. If you dont have AIR, get it here

Stay colrful!

I just finished my presentation and demo for my talk on gumbo. Just got to see the shortlisted submissions for the riathon as well! The apps just rock. I can’t wait to see the showdown at riathon finals @ flash ahead tomorrow. Its going to be one hell of a finals, I am sure.

If you are going to be in bangalore tomorrow and want to attend Flash ahead tomorrow, I still have about 10 invites left with me. If you haven’t signed up, just come to Lalit Ashok, Bangalore tomorrow and ask for me. For all those coming, See you all tomorrow.

Here’s announcing Flash Ahead… The event that will showcase the future of the Flash platform to the Indian audience for the first time.

Date: 17th January, 2009

Venue: Lalit Ashok (erstwhile Grand Ashok), Bangalore

Time: 09:00 to 18:00

At Flash Ahead we are going to announce the selected finalists of riathon’08 and they will battle it out in an on-stage showdown of application, in front of the crowd and judges. Later in the day, the results will be announced and prizes will be distributed. You will also get to see the latest technologies on the Adobe Flash Platform.

If you are a Flex/ Flash / AIR developer in India and think you can be the one behind the coolest of all RIAs, you cannot afford to miss this event! Put on your RIA development shoes, build the coolest app that you can imagine and send it to us on or before 26th November 2008. If your application catches our attention, you will be invited to a very special event on the 29th of November at Grand Ashok, Bangalore where the top applications will go on stage for a demo showdown! This is your chance to Flash your design skills, Flex your coding muscles and AIR your demos in front of an elite judge panel & the Adobe community.

The Grand winner / winning team will walk away with a groovy Apple IPhone.

The runners up will take home with them a Sony home theater system.

What’s more, there are loads of IPod Nano’s, shuffles and Adobe branded goodies to be won.

This event also brings to you an exclusive preview on the new developments in the AdobeFlash Platform. Experience the Flash Catalyst (code name Thermo), Gumbo(code name for the upcoming version of Flex) ,FXG and Flash Player 10.

Calling all the RIA developers, designers & User experience geeks from all over India for an 8 hour long RIA hackathon. Here is your chance to build the coolest RIA ever and walk away with some seriously kick ass prizes (Will post more on the prizes later, but trust me there are really, really BIG prizes to be won!) Come to hack, play, get famous and most importantly walk away with the prizes!